Creating Folders in Registry - VB2005

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  14 years ago

  by Trilarian

  Trilarian

  New Orleans, United States

  Joined 15 years ago

  Hey guys,
  
  VB .NET does appear to be much easier to access and modify the registry, but I am stuck on one problem.  I can access the regisrty, create a new key, and assign a value.  However, I can only do this if the folder already exist.  How do I create a new folder? 
  
  For example, the below code will run with no errors, but upon checking the registry a key has not been added.  If I change 'MyProgram' in the .CreateSubKey line to a folder that already exist in the the registry, then a key is made under that folder with the proper value.  So how do I force the code to make a folder if it does not exist?
  
  Thanks,
  /Tril
  
  

  Imports Microsoft.Win32  ‘Namespace Required for Accessing Registry
  
  Public Sub WriteToRegistry
  
  
  
  	Dim regKey As RegistryKey, regSubKey As RegistryKey
  	‘regKey now points to HKEYCURRENTUSER Registry Key
  	regKey = Registry.CurrentUser	
  	‘A Sub key called MyProgram is created under the HKEYCURRENTUSER key
  	regSubKey =regKey.CreateSubKey ("MyProgram")
  	‘The value of the Key is set to VeryGoodSetting
  	regSubKey.SetValue ("MyValue", "VeryGoodSetting")
  End Sub
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  14 years ago

  by Trilarian

  Trilarian

  New Orleans, United States

  Joined 15 years ago

  Meh... added this one line and it seems to work now.
  
  regKey.Flush()
  
  
  
  

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